Ubuntu on HP 431 – Correctly Installing ATI Radeon 6470M Drivers

I was too busy to post any updates here, but I recently successfully installed the proprietary drivers for ATI Radeon Graphics which are failing by default/giving issues. If you would have installed Ubuntu or any other linux flavor on your machine which has an onboard ATI HD Mobility series graphics card, then you are most likely to be helped by this post.

My Machine has a ATI Radeon 6470M 1GB Graphics and until earlier there were no proprietary drivers available for 6xxxM series in all. So Follow these steps on the machine having a similar graphics card and get this solved.

STEP 1: I suppose the ubuntu would have installed the fglrx drivers on the machine, which would not be needed, so remove it because they will definitely cause issues with your install

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:~$sudo apt-get--purge remove fglrx*

STEP 2: Restart and resolve any dependencies.

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:~$sudo reboot now

This will restart the system and once done.

STEP 3: Rebuild package cache

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:~$sudo apt-get update

STEP 4: Creating a new directory and downloading the latest driver version from ATI’s website. At the time of posting this the latest version is 12.6 so this guide will help you install 12.6, which works great for now

STEP 5: It’s a 102M download so while take a while depending upon your bandwidth. Once done we need to download some added modules so that it is built successfully.

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# apt-get update

# apt-get install libqtgui4 dh-make dh-modaliases execstack

Again this is a combined 50M download will take a while, we are using Ubuntu 12.04 as base check this post for more requisites of other versionsSTEP 6: Building the driver package as an executable for 12.04 precise